Is that a screwdriver in your pocket or....

I find it naive in the extreme that anyone can believe that honest, law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from a government that acts above the law. Have we so soon forgotten the excesses of Hoover, McCarthy and Nixon?

The FISA bill has at it's core created a legal framework for continuing large scale eavesdropping on US citizens. I do not trust our elected officials to safeguard my freedom.

At the present time, our president is above the law. He disregards any legislation he doesn't agree with by issuing a "signing statement."

He has his minions ignore subpoenas from congress and has generally used "executive privilege" to avoid any oversight.

He uses extra governmental email to hide correspondence from public view and destroys email records when confronted.

He can declare anyone in the world an "enemy combatant" and detain them indefinitely.

In light of the recent Supreme Court decision he can simply render you to any country he wishes where you can be held indefinitely and tortured. Try bringing up your habeas corpus rights in a prison cell in Syria or Egypt.

I believe it is obvious that an attack on the US has been used to wantonly destroy our rights as citizens of a free nation and to create as far as possible a police state.

9/11 was a tragedy and we should protect ourselves from another occurrence -- but at what costs. Should we win the "war on terror" by selling our souls?

"Yeah, those cops were obviously under direct orders from the president!"

Don't be an idiot. Police over-reactions to minor incidents are an epidemic in this formerly free country.

Search TSA on BoingBoing to start your education.

Since when is "looking like a hooker" a crime? This is just further proof that we now live in Dictator Bush's police state. The police should have shrugged and walked away, unless she tried to physically harm someone.